The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.

To avoid undesirable growing conditions, environmental factors, pests or diseases, e.g., through early or late sowing, to avoid grain losses is a drought escape mechanism. Escherichia coli ( E. coli). A common gut bacterium used as a model genetic organism. E. coli has about 3,000 genes and a genome of around 4 million basepairs.

An ASCII control or metacharacter (#27, ^]) with its own key on most keyboards, intended originally to signify escape (v) (sense 1). While it has been put to a number of different uses over the decades, it is still often used to pause or terminate a program or process. Frequently called Meta in some programs, notably emacs, where it is a common command prefix.

To pause a running program and return control temporarily to the operating system, usually in order to run some other program. In Unix, the exclamation point (ASCII #33, !, pronounced "bang") is an escape character that can be used in most programs to accomplish this. To cancel the default ( meta-)interpretation of the following character in a string and interpret it literally instead. Thus, while the unescaped (meta)expression " ." matches any character, the regular expression "\." matches a literal period or full stop character only, because it is escaped by the preceding "\".

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 ( 2004-02-04) Entity and character references MAY both be used to escape the left angle bracket, ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities (amp, lt, gt, apos, quot) is specified for this purpose. Numeric character references MAY also be used; they are expanded immediately when recognized and MUST be treated as character data, so the numeric character references and &MAY be used to escape and & when they occur in character data.

Various programs and windows can be closed by one of these: Enter, Escape, q, Alt+q, Alt+F4, Control+q The + means you hold the first while tapping the second. The comma isn't part of the command. ALPHABET

Using escape on a character or a string of characters is a way to change how it is interpreted. This can take away its special meaning, as in shell quoting; or it can add special meaning, as in terminal escape sequences.

To escape a character in C is to precede it with a backslash, indicating to the compiler that it should be treated literally rather than as a syntactical element. In other words, an escaped character is always mentioned rather than used.

(1) (v.) To divest a special character of its special meaning by preceding it with a backslash (\) character. For example, the UNIXÂ® shell interprets ? to represent any single character, but a \? (an â€œescapedâ€ question mark) is interpreted to be just a question-mark character.(2) (n.) The Esc key on the keyboard.(3) (n.) The escape character that is generated by pressing the Esc key.

in the shell context, is the action of surrounding some string between quotes to prevent the shell from interpreting that string. For example, when you need to use spaces in some command line and pipe the results to some other command you have to put the first command between quotes ("escape" the command) otherwise the shell will interpret it incorrectly and won't work as expected.

Programming code uses many characters and combinations of characters to represent distinct functions. For example, parentheses - ( ) - are used to contain data, often for representing order of operations. Double quotation marks are used to specify text. If you want to use one of these characters to simply represent that character, you must designate it as a regular character. This is referred to as escaping a character. In JavaScript, as in several other programming languages, escaping a character is accomplished by preceding it with a back slash ("\").

(1) (vi) The Esc key, used to terminate insert mode, or an incomplete vi command; (2) To prevent a character from having its normal interpretation by a program by preceding it with the escape character (usually \, the backslash); for example in a regular expression, to search for a literal character that has a special meaning in a regular expression, it must be escaped; as a specific example, to search for a period (.), you must type it escaped as \.

The option a character has the first time he is attacked by another character. In order to escape he must have a higher speed stat than his opponent(s). If he escapes his attackers must leave him alone for 15 minutes.

When you escape a character or a string of characters, you change the way it is interpreted. Escaping something can take away its special meaning, as in shell quoting ( 8.14)- or can add special meaning, as in terminal escape sequences ( 5.8).

Referring to plants that have been cultivated in an area, and spread from there into the wild. | Return to Alphabet Bar | amily A group of plants having biologically similar features, such as flower anatomy, fruit type, etc.

nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"

remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"

To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.

To dream of escape from injury or accidents, is usually favorable. If you escape from some place of confinement, it signifies your rise in the world from close application to business. To escape from any contagion, denotes your good health and prosperity. If you try to escape and fail, you will suffer from the design of enemies, who will slander and defraud you.

Escape is the second album by hip hop group Whodini, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music) on the Jive label. The album spawned the hit singles "Five Minutes of Funk", "Friends" and "Freaks Come Out at Night". In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums.

"Escape" (later known as "Escape (The PiÃ±a Colada Song)") was the highest-charting hit for Rupert Holmes. To this day, Holmes regards the song with a mixture of pride and chagrin; while it has made him wealthy and famous, as one of his friends described it, it is "the success that ruined his career", drawing attention from his more serious and heartfelt musical works.

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7 1947 to September 25 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.

In most games you can skip past or jump through the opening credits and videos and certain dialogues within the game (if you have seen them before) by hitting the Escape Key or Spacebar on your keyboard. Your game's manual will tell you if this is possible. Back to the Index of Terms

This is an Internet conundrum. On the Internet, escape is represented as C ] or ^] or sometimes C ] q . A X and C @ are other common forms. Although described as the "Internet escape key," it is usually a combination of keystrokes. It is not the E key on the MS-DOS machines and can vary from keyboard to keyboard and would be a separate key on Macintosh. It is commonly used to terminate a session with a remote machine, butdetermining the exact form as a function of keyboard can vary. HYTELNET provides a guide for various systems and keyboards.